An international team of astronomers led by Dr Sascha Quanz from the ETH Zurich’s Institute for Astronomy, Switzerland, has obtained what is likely the first direct observation of a forming gas giant. This image shows a protoplanet circling the young star HD100546 (ESO) “So far, planet formation has mostly been a topic tackled by computer simulations,” Dr Quanz said. “If our discovery is indeed a forming planet, then for the first time scientists...
